ex-pungo
ex-pungo, unxi, unctum, 3, v. a. * Lit., to prick out: nates jam diu sunt saepe expunctae, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 67.— Hence, Transf. To strike out, cross out, blot out, erase from a list by points (set above or below). Lit., to expunge a debt, to discharge a soldier (mostly ante- and post-class.; not in Cic.): ut expungatur nomen, ne quid debeam, Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 41: miles pulchre centuriatus est expuncto in manipulo, discharged, disbanded, id. Curc. 4, 4, 29: decurias judicum, Suet. Claud. 15: ex causa desertionis notatus temporis, quo in desertione fuit, stipendiis expungitur, is struck off from the roll, deprived of his pay, Dig. 49, 16, 15. — In gen. To get out of the way, remove: pupillum, Pers. 2, 12.— Esp., to blot out a score, remove an obligation (by returning the favor): munus munere, Sen. Ben. 4, 40, 4.— To settle or adjust an account, to reckon up any thing: rei publicae rationes subscriptae et expunctae, Dig. 44, 3, 4: ausus est annumerare posteris stellas ac sidera ad nomen expungere, to reckon up, enumerate, Plin. 2, 26, 24, § 95: expungebantur milites laureati, were checked off, sc. as destined to be rewarded, Tert. Cor. Mil. 1.— Transf., in gen., to execute, accomplish, perform, fulfil: effectum, Tert. Apol. 35: adventum, id. ib. 21: vota et gaudia Caesarum, id. ib. 35.
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ex-pungo, unxi, unctum, 3, v. a. * Lit., to prick out: nates jam diu sunt saepe expunctae, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 67.— Hence, Transf. To strike out, cross out, blot out, erase from a list by points (set above or below). Lit., to expunge a debt, to discharge a soldier (mostly ante- and post-class.; not in Cic.): ut expungatur nomen, ne quid debeam, Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 41: miles pulchre centuriatus est expuncto in manipulo, discharged, disbanded, id. Curc. 4, 4, 29: decurias judicum, Suet. Claud. 15: ex causa desertionis notatus temporis, quo in desertione fuit, stipendiis expungitur, is struck off from the roll, deprived of his pay, Dig. 49, 16, 15. — In gen. To get out of the way, remove: pupillum, Pers. 2, 12.— Esp., to blot out a score, remove an obligation (by returning the favor): munus munere, Sen. Ben. 4, 40, 4.— To settle or adjust an account, to reckon up any thing: rei publicae rationes subscriptae et expunctae, Dig. 44, 3, 4: ausus est annumerare posteris stellas ac sidera ad nomen expungere, to reckon up, enumerate, Plin. 2, 26, 24, § 95: expungebantur milites laureati, were checked off, sc. as destined to be rewarded, Tert. Cor. Mil. 1.— Transf., in gen., to execute, accomplish, perform, fulfil: effectum, Tert. Apol. 35: adventum, id. ib. 21: vota et gaudia Caesarum, id. ib. 35.
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